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Tag Archives: Hood-Remembered
Hood Remembered: The Sesquicentennial
Today, ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Sam Hood. Sam Hood is a descendant of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and author of the forthcoming The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood. He has also written a biography of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Sesquicentennial, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Spring Hill, Hood-Remembered, John Bell Hood
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Hood Remembered: Daniel T. Davis
The memory of John Bell Hood has taken on a popular view that more often than not emphasizes the negative while ignoring the positive. As has been mentioned over the course of the last several days in “Hood Remembered,” Hood … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged George Custer, Hood-Remembered, John Bell Hood, Ulysses S. Grant
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Hood Remembered: Meg Groeling
It is not two years since the sight of a person who had lost one of his lower limbs was an infrequent occurrence. Now, Alas! there are few of us who have not a cripple among our friends if not … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities
Tagged aftermath of battle, amputations, Battle of Gettysburg, civil war dearhs, Confederate army, Confederate veterans, disabled Civil War veterans, emergency amputations, General Hood, Gettysburg, Hood, Hood-Remembered, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, medicine, Memory, Oliver Wendell Holmes, prosthetics, Sally Preston, Union veterans, veterans' benefits Civil War, wounded warriors
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Hood Remembered: Chris Mackowski
Soon after my five-year-old daughter got hooked on the Civil War, she had me buy for her two decks of Civil War flashcards. The blue deck contained Union officers, the gray Confederates. We would flick through the cards on road … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged Hood-Remembered, John Bell Hood, Stephanie Mackowski
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Hood Remembered: Ryan Quint
John Bell Hood is one of those Civil War commanders that seems like he was promoted above his capacity. He’s hardly alone in that category, joined by numerous others who were commanding at a level they should not have been. … Continue reading
Hood Remembered: Lee White
I think Hood should be remembered as a talented brigade and division commander, one who inspired his men and one who didn’t ask them to do something he himself would not do. He was brave to a fault and a … Continue reading
Hood Remembered: Chris Kolakowski
How should we remember John Bell Hood? The answer to this question depends partly on your own point of view. Eastern Theater historians see him one way, based on his record with the Army of Northern Virginia as a brigade … Continue reading
Hood Remembered: Crossing the Tennessee
Today, ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Sam Hood. Sam Hood is an descendant of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and author of the forthcoming The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood. He has also written a biography of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Alexander Stewart, Army of Tennessee, Atlanta, Frank Cheatham, Hood-Remembered, Jefferson Davis, John Schofield, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sam Hood, Stephen D. Lee, William T. Sherman
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Hood Remembered
The sesquicentennial of the Confederates’ ill-fated Franklin-Nashville campaign is kicking off as John Bell Hood moves his army north into Tennessee. Hood’s intent was to drawn William T. Sherman’s armies after him; instead, Sherman plunged into Georgia, leaving the problem … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged Franklin, Hood-Remembered, John Bell Hood, Nashville
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